The Ideas Foundation

The mission of the Ideas Foundation www.ideasfoundation.org.uk is to identify and nurture creatively gifted young people whose talents may have been overlooked in the exam focused school system. The Ideas Foundation's main programme is the Creativity Scholarship programme for disadvantaged and BME students aged  14-19.

Tom's Trust has funded the Graft & Glamour Project: Over the past 3 years students that are reported as 'at risk of exclusion and failing educationally' have done well on this project and re-engaged with education. Many of these young people are highly creative and if captured by creativity and innovation will shine. For this reason 'Graft & Glamour' has been designed, specifically for these students.

Tom's Trust is providing funding for a project for 16 excluded students in Hackney. The theme will be 'off side creatives' a film and multimedia showing how these type of young people can be re-engaged and creatively 'activated' to produce future creative productive individuals, as opposed to their predicted socioeconomic dead-end.

The project will be based mainly in Hackney Community College, but there are also University and industry venues and mentors and a personal development programme. - www.ideasfoundation.org.uk